Hot Spot

It’s a warm summer night and the air is alive with the clink of wine glasses, the twinkling bubble of laughter and the soft pop of fresh corks. We’re not at some rooftop cocktail bar or mod wine lounge, but at South Asheville’s favorite wine shop, Vaso de Vino.

Asheville is an undisputed music mecca. From downtown’s street corners to a dozen venues around town, this city is constantly buzzing with the sounds of instruments plucked, beat and warbled. If there’s an epicenter for music within Asheville, it’s downtown. And it’s here that you’ll find a surprising musical hotspot, a place where drinks clink along to the beat of…

We all want freedom: freedom from fear, from pain, from worrying about what others think of us. What would your life look like if you were completely free? How would you carry yourself? How would you spend your time? How would this freedom affect your relationships with others?

In the time-tested battle of art versus science, right brain versus left, it’s nearly always the left—that mathematical wizard and conquerer of quadratics—that wins in the game of success. But for Asheville’s Katie Button, it was the art of cooking that conquered her brain to win her heart.